Re: Mouse Bindings with gnome

[Matthijs Melchior <mmelchio xs4all nl>]

Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> Matthias Warkus wrote:
> 
> > +++ Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:18:46PM -0800 +++
> > Miles Lane e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> >
> >> Noone from Helixcode or the Gnome core team
> >> has yet addressed the need for handling USB keyboards
> >> and mice.
> >
> >
> > Why should they? Device drivers are a kernel affair, handling pointing
> > devices is an X server issue. AFAIK, GNOME does not include any
> > efforts to work on OS kernels or on X servers (apart from, maybe, the
> > Render extension, which has got nothing to do with supporting mice).
> 
> Well, there is the control center, which has a mouse configuration
> interface, including a right-left mouse option.  Doesn't that option
> set the interpretation of button signals from a particular device?
> I am looking at the UI right now and it doesn't have an option to
> specify which mouse device to modify, so it is probably defaulting
> to /dev/mouse (which on my machine is a link to psaux).
> 
.....

I have two mice connected, one on each side of my keyboard, the one
on the left has button 1 on the right.  Left mouse is USB, right
mouse is PS/2. This is configured just with X11, I have not been
looking at Gnome Control center....

Here are relevant exerpts from the following files:

---- XF86config-4 ----
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Buttons"               "6"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "resolution"            "250"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Second Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Buttons"               "6"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "resolution"            "250"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"      "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"         "CorePointer"
        InputDevice     "Second Mouse"          "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
!--- XF86config-4 ----

---- ~gnome/etc/gdm/Init/Default ----
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinput set-button-map 'Second Mouse' 3 2 1
!--- ~gnome/etc/gdm/Init/Default ----


And now, looking at Gnome Control Center, it does not appear to know
about the possibility to have more than one mouse, or other pointing
device for that matter....

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